Who needs James Harden when you have Gerald Green? Until Harden carves the Rockets’ “R” into his beard and can do an alley-oop windmill dunk, I’m giving the edge to Green.
I’m getting some serious Michael-Beasley-Getting-Rescued-From-China-By-The-Rockets vibes right now. It’s almost the same situation; unwanted scoring-only player departs from the league because they can’t get signed, the Rockets pick them up to mitigate their injury situation, and they immediately start getting hella buckets without even knowing the system.
In fairness, the Rockets’ system seems incredibly simple, and is tailored to the skillset of Green: shoot threes, you dumbass. Green doesn’t need the system to tell him that, he’ll do it anyway. One thing he does need to figure out is that midrange jumpers are a no go here in Houston. This is the second game where he’s made one, so apparently they weren’t hard enough on him after the first time. Shape up, bro, or you’ll be out of the league again.